FIRST & SECOND CONJUGATION VERBS I. First Conjugation Verbs (-!

re) in the present tense are formed as follows: -" -! s -at -!mus -!tis -ant Thus: am" I love am!s you love amat he loves am!mus we love am!tis you (pl.) love amant they love

The Imperative is formed with -! (sing.) and -!te (pl.): am!, am!te. Principal Parts: am", -!re, -!v#, -!tum
There are about 360 simple verbs of the First Conjugation, most formed directly from a noun or adjective stem. Thus, arma, arms - arm", I arm; amor, love - am", I love. Their conjugation is usually regular (like am", am!re, am!v#, am!tum) but note the following irregularities in the 3rd and 4th Principal Parts (those marked with * also have regular forms): crep!, -"re, crepu#*, crepitum - to make noise cub!, -"re, cubu#*, cubitum* - to lie down d!, d"re, ded#, datum - to give dom!, -"re, domu#, domitum - to subdue fric!, -"re, fricu#, frictum* - to rub iuv!, -"re, i$v#, i$tum - to help lav!, "re, l"v#, lautum* - to wash mic!, -"re, micu#, - to glitter nec!, -"re, necu#*, nec"tum - to kill plic!, -"re, plicu#*, plicitum - to fold p!t!, -"re, p!t"v#, p!tum - to drink sec!, -"re, secu#, sectum - to cut son!, -"re, sonu#, sonitum - to sound st!, st"re, stet#, statum - to stand ton!, -"re, tonu#, tonitum - to thunder vet!, -"re, vetu#, vetitum - to forbid, veto

II. Second Conjugation Verbs (-$re) in the present tense are formed as follows: -e" -$s -et -$mus -$tis -ent Thus: mone" I warn mon$s you warn monet he warns mon$mus we warn mon$tis you (pl.) warn monent they warn

The Imperative is formed with -$ (sing.) and -$te (pl.): mon$, mon$te. Principal Parts: mone", -$re, -u#, -itum.
There are nearly 120 simple verbs of the Second Conjugation, many of them verbs of condition with corresponding noun and adjective forms (timor, fear; timidus, fearful, shy - time", -$re, timu#, to fear). The Perfect Stem often ends (like mone" and time") in -u#, but -ev#, -#, -s#, and -x# are also found. Note the following: "rde!, -%re, "rs# - to burn, be on fire auge!, -%re, aux#, auctum - to increase fle!, -%re, fl%v#, fl%tum - to weep doce!, -%re, docu#, doctum - to teach iube!, -%re, iuss#, iussum - to order mane!, -%re, mans#, mansum - to wait for misce!, -%re, miscu#, mixtum - to mix move!, -%re, m!v#, m!tum - to move pende!, -%re, pepend#, p%nsum - to hang persu"de! -%re, persu"s#, persu"sum - to persuade responde!, -%re, respond#, responsum - to reply r#de!, -%re, r#s#, r#sum - to laugh sede!, -%re, s%d#, sessum - to sit tene!, -%re, tenu#, tentum - to hold torque!, -%re, tors#, tortum - to twist vide!, -%re, v#d#, v#sum - to see